From the emphasis of the reggae phrasing in their music, to country-esque ditties, to fast-paced drum beats that nod to the rock legends of old, to irregular tempos found in blues and funk tracks, Earthbound Trio’s latest album, ‘Ditch Flowers’, has it all. Continue reading New Music: Earthbound Trio’s ‘Ditch Flowers’
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New Music: Kenny James’ ‘Tougher Than Nails’
Driving an old beat-up car down a dirt road with no endpoint in mind, canoeing on a favourite lake, or sitting around a campfire and swapping the best stories and knee-slappers you can muster, this is what Kenny James’ album, ‘Tougher Than Nails’, brings to mind. Continue reading New Music: Kenny James’ ‘Tougher Than Nails’
Mark Chilton: Design In Translation
Taking the first step into Mark Chilton’s exhibit is like stepping into another world; figures draped in textured swaths hang from the ceiling, red balls of cloth and floral textiles suspended above their forms, disconnected from their bodies, while the photographic portrait of a man, a solitary male figure, stands adjacent: a humanistic pairing to the designs. This world is one that connects the viewer to an era that merged two times: the past, tradition and human creation, and the modern, edge and manufactured substances. Continue reading Mark Chilton: Design In Translation
The LaFleur Tales: Chaucer Reimagined
It’s a cold Sunday afternoon and I am sitting at the Roxstone Café, in Fredericton, NB. Leo LaFleur, Saint John resident, songwriter, vocalist, and musician, walks into the café and I wave him over. He is wearing a hoodie, t-shirt, jeans, pea coat, and boots; certainly not screaming time-travelling musician to me, but his music precedes him and introduces him as an artist caught between two temporal fields: that of modernity and of the middle ages. It draws his audience in, connecting that past to familiar modern themes. Continue reading The LaFleur Tales: Chaucer Reimagined
William Forrestall: 6000 Years In The Making
The classroom assumed an errant look of careful artistry; large tables are crowding the small space and every surface is coated in chalk dust. The congested space resonates with the voices of sixty or more students, all of which are immediately silenced upon the entrance of a man clothed in a forest green corduroy jacket, hazel pants, and a smile that reaches from ear to ear. That man is William Forrestall, a Fredericton based artist who often moonlights as a Fine Arts professor at St. Thomas University. Continue reading William Forrestall: 6000 Years In The Making